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Reporters Without Borders Germany

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Reporters Without Borders Germany is the German section of the international human rights organisation Reporters sans Frontières.

Reporters Without Borders Germany aims to defend human rights, in particular freedom of the press and the right to inform and be informed anywhere in the world.

For this purpose the association aims:

To raise public awareness of the issue of human rights and mobilise the public to support journalists and media that have become victims of repression;

To gather, process and diffuse information by all appropriate means, in particular by investigative missions and the support of newspapers and TV and radio stations that have been threatened or are oppressed for political reasons, thus hindering the free formation of public opinion;

To support media persecuted for their research.

Web: https://www.reporter-ohne-grenzen.de/

Robert Bosch Stiftung

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The Robert Bosch Stiftung is one of the major German foundations associated with a private company and has managed the philanthropic bequest of company founder Robert Bosch for more than 40 years.

The Foundation aims to respond to social challenges and develop new solutions. To do so, it organises a wide range of projects and programmes independently and supports many project ideas developed by others. People are at the center of all our activities because people are the basis of innovation. This was also the approach adopted by our founder, Robert Bosch.

The Foundation supports programs in health and science; education, society and culture; international relations in Western Europe, America, Turkey, Japan and India; and international relations in Central and Southeastern Europe, CIS and China.

The Robert Bosch Stiftung supported BIRN Hub’s Balkan Fellowship for Journalistic Excellence.

Web: https://www.bosch-stiftung.de/de

Swiss Cultural Programme in the Western Balkans

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The Swiss Cultural Programme in the Western Balkans is run by Pro Helvetia, the Swiss Arts Council, upon mandate of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC.

The overall goal of the Swiss Cultural Programme in the Western Balkans is to contribute to the promotion of democracy and freedom of expression, to conflict resolution and the respect of minorities through employment of cultural instruments and fostering of regional cooperation, thus facilitating the formation and preservation of independent and diversified cultural landscapes.

The Swiss Cultural Programme works in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia and Serbia. The programme’s strategic and operational management is based in the regional office in Sarajevo.

The Swiss Cultural Programme in the Western Balkans supports BIRN Hub’s Balkan Initiative for Cultural Cooperation, Exchange and Development (BICCED).

Web: Official web site

The Embassy of the United States in Skopje

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The U.S. Embassy in Skopje works to advance bilateral relations with the government and people of Macedonia, engaging foreign affairs, business, civil society, education, and other communities to promote issues of mutual interest.

The Embassy has previously supported BIRN Hub’s Summer School of Investigative Reporting.

Web: http://macedonia.usembassy.gov/about-us.html

The Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA)

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The Federal Department of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland directs the country’s foreign policy. It also carries out programmes that support its peace, human rights and humanitarian policy and economic development collaboration.

The Federal Department of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Switzerland supports BIRN in the following programmes and projects:

In the Balkan Region

The FDFA supports BIRN Hub’s Regional Reporting on Balkan Transitional Justice Issues project.

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In Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Human Security Division of the FDFA, which has an office in Sarajevo, has supported the BIRN BiH Justice Series Programme since 2007.

The Ministry’s Human Security Division: Peace, Human Rights, Humanitarian Policy, Migration is responsible for implementing measures to promote peace and strengthen human rights in the world.

The concept of human security focuses on the safety of individual human beings and protecting people against political violence, war and acts of arbitrary violence. It is based on the recognition that peace policy, human rights policy and humanitarian policy are closely interlinked.

Web: The Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Embassy to Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office of Great Britain

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The Foreign and Commonwealth Office is responsible for promoting British interests overseas and supporting British citizens and businesses around the globe.

The Conflict Pool, one of the Ministry’s funding programmes, supports activities that seek to reduce the number of people around the world whose lives are, or might be, affected by violent conflict.

The Pool funds discretionary conflict prevention, stabilisation and peacekeeping activities. It focuses on tackling threats at source in high-risk and fragile and conflict-affected countries where UK interests are most at stake and where the UK can have an impact.

Through its Conflict Pool programme, the Foreign Office supports BIRN Hub’s Regional Reporting on Transitional Justice Issues Project.

Web: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/foreign-commonwealth-office

The Open Society Foundation Albania

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The Open Society Foundation Albania (OSFA) uses monitoring and policy analysis, advocacy, litigation, and grassroots activism to help the country pursue democratization and EU integration.

The foundation works with civil society groups and government agencies to conduct analyses and produce accurate data that will help bring the country in line with EU standards for justice, public administration, anticorruption, governance, and human rights. It also plays a watchdog role by helping civil society organizations and policymakers hold government accountable to meeting its commitments for EU membership.

The foundation helps groups pursue justice by using public interest litigation to address impunity issues that are a significant concern for Albania’s democratic transition. OSFA fosters evidence-based debate by commissioning publicly available research and surveys on governance, social issues, and the economy. Its democracy and justice priorities also include developing partnerships with civil society groups and government allies. By bringing these groups together it address under acknowledged issues such as palliative care and to increase the social, political, and economic participation of marginalized communities such as Roma and people with disabilities.

OSFA funds BIRN Albania’s anti-corruption program, which aims to expose corruption and impunity, through investigative reporting and closer cooperation between journalists and civil society organizations.

The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida)

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The Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) is a government agency working on behalf of the Swedish parliament and government, with the mission to reduce poverty in the world. Through their work and in cooperation with others, they contribute to implementing Sweden’s Policy for Global Development (PGU).

They work in order to implement the Swedish development policy that will enable poor people to improve their lives. Another part of their mission is conducting reform cooperation with Eastern Europe, which is financed through a specific appropriation. The third part of their assignment is to distribute humanitarian aid to people in need of assistance.

Sida carries out enhanced development cooperation with a total of 33 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America. The selection of cooperation countries is based on political decisions made by the Swedish government.

Sida’s mission is to allocate aid and other funding. Their operations are managed by the government’s guidelines, describing the goals for each year’s operations and the size of the development aid budget.

Three thematic priorities determine the direction of Swedish development cooperation and all interventions should relate to them. Those are democracy and human rights, environment and climate, and gender equality and women’s role in development.

In the period 2015-2019 Sida provides core support to BIRN Hub for implementing cross-regional programmes and enhancing the capacity of the Network.

Web: http://www.sida.se/English/

United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

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The United States has a long history of extending a helping hand to people overseas struggling to make a better life. It is a history that both reflects the American people’s compassion and support of human dignity as well as advances U.S. foreign policy interests.

In order to support these goals, President John. F. Kennedy created the United States Agency for International Development by executive order in 1961.

U.S. foreign assistance has always had the twofold purpose of furthering America’s interests while improving lives in the developing world. USAID carries out U.S. foreign policy by promoting broad-scale human progress at the same time it expands stable, free societies, creates markets and trade partners for the United States, and fosters good will abroad.

Spending less than 1 percent of the total federal budget, USAID works in over 100 countries to:

  • Promote broadly shared economic prosperity;
  • Strengthen democracy and good governance;
  • Protect human rights;
  • Improve global health,
  • Advance food security and agriculture;
  • Improve environmental sustainability;
  • Further education;
  • Help societies prevent and recover from conflicts; and
  • Provide humanitarian assistance in the wake of natural and man-made disasters.

Web: https://www.usaid.gov/

US Embassy in Albania

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The US Embassy in Tirana is the official representation of the United States in Albania. It is responsible for developing and maintaining relations between the United States and Albania.

Democracy Commission Small Grants Program

The Democracy Commission Small Grants Program supports initiatives of local non-governmental organizations (NGOs) engaged in building the social and intellectual foundations of democracy, the democratic resolution of problems and the institutionalization of open, pluralistic political processes.

The Program funds projects throughout Albania in a variety of fields, including those related to: rule of law, respect for human rights, participatory governance, women’s empowerment, dispute reconciliation, economic reform, business development, civic education, media training, environmental awareness, anti-trafficking, domestic violence, anti-corruption, etc.

Web: https://al.usembassy.gov/